Thomas Jefferson Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas, commits suicide at his home in Nacogdoches

Thomas Jefferson Rusk, who had been the first Secretary of War of the Texas Republic and is now the sitting senator from the state, shoots himself with a rifle at his home in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has been despondent over the death of his wife from tuberculosis. He is fifty-four years old. (By John Osborne)
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1858 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857), 358-359.
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